Geng korrakot : This are the case study i've found on creating a scent to the space + emotion control
peng feng, vice dean of the aesthetics and educational research center at peking university and curator of the chinese pavilion,
presents five single-artist installations redolent of scents associated with the country's cultural tradition
(as opposed to the west's traditional focus on aesthetics): tea, lotus, liquor, incense and herbal medicine.
here are some pictures from the scene:
presents five single-artist installations redolent of scents associated with the country's cultural tradition
(as opposed to the west's traditional focus on aesthetics): tea, lotus, liquor, incense and herbal medicine.
here are some pictures from the scene:
lavor and fragrance are designated by the same chinese character…
cai's work evokes tea; yuan's, the smell of incense; yang's, medicinal herbs; pan's, the smell of lotus;
and liang's the pungent scent of china's traditional white spirit -- 'baijiu'.
cai's work evokes tea; yuan's, the smell of incense; yang's, medicinal herbs; pan's, the smell of lotus;
and liang's the pungent scent of china's traditional white spirit -- 'baijiu'.
ach cloud of 'cloud-tea' was lightly coated in white paint to add depth and layering
image © designboom
'cloud-tea' by cai zhisong
the white-painted 'devices' are made of steel and house wind chimes and tea.
when moved by the wind, the clouds emit the scent of tea and the sound of the wind itself. the fragrance comes from longjing tea,
which the buddhist monks drink tea to keep a pure and refreshed mood. the installation is designed to induce feelings of being wakefulness
and enlightenment.
image © designboom
'cloud-tea' by cai zhisong
the white-painted 'devices' are made of steel and house wind chimes and tea.
when moved by the wind, the clouds emit the scent of tea and the sound of the wind itself. the fragrance comes from longjing tea,
which the buddhist monks drink tea to keep a pure and refreshed mood. the installation is designed to induce feelings of being wakefulness
and enlightenment.
though appropriately related, the surrounding fog are incidentally part of another work, 'empty incense' by yuan gong.
using twenty sets of ultrasonic atomizers, the installation's high-pressure water mist system fills the pavilion with atomized incense fog
every two hours, from a square of white pebbles laid on the grass.
using twenty sets of ultrasonic atomizers, the installation's high-pressure water mist system fills the pavilion with atomized incense fog
every two hours, from a square of white pebbles laid on the grass.
Hello Geng. Geng maak! I like your example and the direction your project is moving in generally. However, I do notice some problem and here are some suggestions for how to proceed:
ReplyDelete__first, the beginning and end of your boards discuss different sites. Your first image only examines existing odors around the pond, but you seem to be interested in activities extending all the way to the statue. So, what is your site? The pond? The field? The statue? All of the above?
__before answering this question, consider your very unique material--odor making material. If you wanted to create physical architecture to cover the entire field, it would cost you billions of baht, months of work, and a lot of environmental suffering. But, if you want to create an invisible architecture that was a complex and large olfactory space, you could do so very cheaply by designing not for the eyes but for the nose. So, you could choose the entire site. You need to answer, why would you?
_going back to your activities page, the visual diagram is a step in the right direction; however, you write about a lot of very interesting information on the left side of the document that we never get to see. What are the behaviors associated with rugby, spectatorship, sports, sports day, loy krathong, etc? How could an olfactory architecture assist these activities? Please VISUALIZE THESE STORIES AND BEHAVIORS EVEN MORE
__I like the direction your thoughts are moving in on your 'smelling device' page. Is your goal, though, just to do some particularly smelly landscaping? Or, are you fabricating a device that produces smells? If so, what is the connection between form and smell? What is the connection with belief? If your flower-atomizers produce a smell like doughnuts, what does this do to belief? Would it attract a student more than a flower that smells like a flower? How can you use this combination of visual attraction + olfactory attraction + belief manipulation to program the site? Can odors change in your devices to change the programming? What if part of your architecture smells good for the programs in which people are invited into particular areas but smells bad when the program asks that people be excluded?
__your seating design could also be improved. Your current design proposes seating devices + separate odor devices (bushes). Why are they separate? Why not have the device that is used for seating be also the device that produces odors? And, you state that people have difficulty with the current architecture (or lack thereof) fulfilling their desired activity: feeding animals. You say this is because the current seating is hot and uncomfortable. How is your proposed seating comfortable and cool? Can you create seating that is comfortable, cool and odiferous? For example, what if your seating device was made of a soft moss with atmoizers that emitted a cooling, pleasantly smelling mist that both cooled and delighted the user? Would you go there? Push this idea further. Try to do more with less. If you design something have it solve multiple needs.
__how will you use color in your devices? How can this produce a synaesthetic effect that produces activating beliefs?
__can you use elements from the site to be your physical architecture and then use odor to act like invisible walls, stairs etc? For example, what role can the water play in producing an olfactory barrier? How can the trees be used to support odor-producing devices?
__have you examined the architecture of the wind on the site? Where is it blowing from and to? If you channel this architecture, you can emit smells through it and effect behavior with it. It could be invisible yet affective--just like beliefs!!!!!!!
__please address these concerns by Friday, on the blog, at 1 pm. Push your design more in the direction of your case study.